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one day from my hotel to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. The driver asked whether I would need him for the rest of the day. "If you can take me to Ramallah," I replied, "that would be great. Otherwise, no thanks." My driver's reaction was symptomatic of what I was hearing from many Israelis. "Ramalla
a particular problem. We rode the rest of the blessedly short trip in silence. Later that week, my students and I took two taxis from the hotel to Abu Dis, a West Bank village just outside the security barrier that surrounds Jerusalem. What should have been a 15-minute ride took about 40 minutes, as
lding mine. To land safely we have to help each other... And if we don’t jump, many, many innocent people who are now walking the streets of Gaza and Ramallah and Hebron, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, will die.” Arafat again just nodded, leaving me, and the President, unsure whether anything I’d said had struck h
ployments. In fact, he now wanted us to add the transfer of three Arab villages on the edge of east Jerusalem: Eizaria, El-Ram and, most importantly, Abu Dis, since from there you could see the golden dome of the mosque above the Western Wall in the Old City. I understood why the villages were politically
lding mine. To land safely we have to help each other... And if we don't jump, many, many innocent people who are now walking the streets of Gaza and Ramallah and Hebron, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, will die." Arafat again just nodded, leaving me, and the President, unsure whether anything I'd said had struck h
ployments. In fact, he now wanted us to add the transfer of three Arab villages on the edge of east Jerusalem: Eizaria, El-Ram and, most importantly, Abu Dis, since from there you could see the golden dome of the mosque above the Western Wall in the Old City. I understood why the villages were politically
Entities connected to both Ramallah and Abu Dis

Jerusalem
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSON
West Bank
LOCATION
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSONthe West Bank
LOCATION
United States
LOCATIONthe Gaza Strip
LOCATION
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATIONSinai
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Ehud Barak
PERSON
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Hebron
LOCATION
East Jerusalem
LOCATION
Shimon Peres
PERSON